The other day I bought a few clown loaches, a brown african knife, and a new pleco for my tank. I put them all in a quarantine tank and was all set to let them hang out for a few weeks until I knew they were safe for my big tank.
Everyone was fine for a few days...then one morning I woke up and they were COVERED in what looked like ich. I've dealt with ich before in my oscar tank, but it started out with a few little specks here and there on their fins and never got anywhere beyond that with heat/salt treatment.
The fish in the quarantine tank were literally COVERED with white dots...some of which were bigger than the "grain of sand" size of normal ich pretty much overnight. I immediately did a huge water change, spiked the temp and added salt. And then this morning I woke up to several dead fish, the only one left is the pleco, and he's showing no signs of illness at all. They all had this appearance of their skin sloughing off, but the white spots were nowhere to be found. They sort of looked like they were covered with fuzz, that's really the only way to describe it.
I've never seen ich progress so rapidly, especially when they were all fine one day and the next day they were knocking on death's door.
Any ideas on whether this was ich, or something else?
Everyone was fine for a few days...then one morning I woke up and they were COVERED in what looked like ich. I've dealt with ich before in my oscar tank, but it started out with a few little specks here and there on their fins and never got anywhere beyond that with heat/salt treatment.
The fish in the quarantine tank were literally COVERED with white dots...some of which were bigger than the "grain of sand" size of normal ich pretty much overnight. I immediately did a huge water change, spiked the temp and added salt. And then this morning I woke up to several dead fish, the only one left is the pleco, and he's showing no signs of illness at all. They all had this appearance of their skin sloughing off, but the white spots were nowhere to be found. They sort of looked like they were covered with fuzz, that's really the only way to describe it.
I've never seen ich progress so rapidly, especially when they were all fine one day and the next day they were knocking on death's door.
Any ideas on whether this was ich, or something else?
